CRS Version

"How can I verify what version CRS is?".

The version of CRS can be higher than the version of database/ASM software. The commands to see the same are

crsctl query crs softwareversion
crsctl query crs activeversion

So although the difference between the two commands might be obvious I am not sure if this is documented anywhere. Also after upgrading from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2/10.2.0.3 the active version does not seem to change. This maybe due to bug 5278777 which should be fixed in the 10.2.0.4 patchset.

I upgraded a couple of clusters yesterday from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3 (without any issues per se) and this is what I see after the CRS upgrade.

elephant-> crsctl query crs softwareversion
CRS software version on node [elephant] is [10.2.0.3.0]
elephant-> crsctl query crs activeversion
CRS active version on the cluster is [10.2.0.1.0]

elephant-> cemutlo -w
2:1:

The cemutlo command is used by the EM agent to query CRS version.

Also a rolling upgrade of CRS causes the VIP to relocate to some other node and you have to manually relocate the same using crs_relocate. This is mentioned in the patchset readme though I am not sure how many customers actually read the section “Known Issues”.